Brian Bull
ReporterBrian Bull is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, and remains a contributor to the KLCC news department. He began working with KLCC in June 2016. In his 27+ years as a public media journalist, he's worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (22 regional), the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from the Native American Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.
An enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe, Bull has worked with NPR's Next Generation Project geared towards diversifying the ranks of tomorrow's journalists. He's been a guest faculty instructor at the Poynter Institute on covering underrepresented communities. He's served as chair for Vision Maker Media, which supports authentic programs and documentaries produced by Native Americans.
Bull has a Master's Degree in American Journalism Online from New York University, and a B.A. from Macalester College where he studied Psychology, English, and Dramatic Arts.
He's glad to be home in the Pacific Northwest, close to his family, tribe, and the Oregon Coast. If only someone had warned him about the grass seed pollen every spring! Bull is married and has three children, and five cats. He enjoys photography, hiking, cooking, the visual and performing arts, and the occasional Godzilla movie.
Read how Brian's desire to spur reflection led him to a career in public media.
Brian has worked through the decades with NPR on its Next Generation Radio Project, which trains journalists from underrepresented communities to become tomorrow's reporters. Check out his latest NextGen project with Native American Journalists Association mentees, hosted at Syracuse University.
Brian recently became the lead interviewer and consultant for the Public Radio Oral History Project, which aims to build a repository of interviews with many of the industry's founders and innovators.
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Nearly half a century after losing their right to hunt, fish, and gather on their ancestral lands, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have just regained it. -
Human trafficking awareness and prevention was the focus of a community discussion last Thursday at Eugene’s Hult Center. Among those attending were advocates for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. -
A Native American photojournalist is promoting a “Land Back” movement across the U.S. for territory ceded or taken during colonization. -
Native Americans needing help with addiction and substance abuse have an option opening this month in the Yamhill County town of Sheridan. The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde’s new residential treatment facility, Main Street Recovery, held its grand opening Monday and is taking referrals. -
Almost two years after two regional credit unions announced a merger, finalization is almost complete. -
An effort to improve response to reports of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) in Oregon is underway in the state legislature. -
Presidents Day is usually low-key, an observance more about mattress sales and car dealerships. But across the U.S., including in Eugene, protests against President Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk were held. -
After centuries of overhunting by fur traders, sea otters have largely disappeared from the Oregon and Northern California coasts. But the Siletz Tribe is trying to bring them back with the help of a $1.56 million grant. -
The operator of a now-shuttered wood treatment facility in Eugene has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of breaking clean air and hazardous waste laws, and will pay $1.5 million in criminal penalties. -
Several hundred people gathered outside Autzen Stadium in Eugene Monday morning in below freezing temperatures, for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and March. And this year, the event overlapped with Donald Trump’s inauguration.
